41. It was a central offertory area within the temple where incense sticks might be burned. 42. Around 200 CE, a group of wandering Buddhist monks introduced incense stick making to China. 43. Mansa is also offered coconuts, fruits, garlands and incense sticks in order to appease her. 44. The bride and groom burn incense sticks , asking for permission from the ancestors to bless them. 45. Offerings of canned drinks, biscuits, burning incense sticks and make-believe money were placed before the corpses. 46. Both incense sticks and coconuts are also exported from this village to the city of Mysore. 47. Cemeteries get crowded, and each year grass fires are inadvertently started by the burning incense sticks . 48. Instead of tools, he carried incense sticks . 49. Unmarried girls in white jackets and floppy white hats tended incense sticks the size of rocket launchers. 50. The aroma of the incense stick has healing power that has a soothing effect on the mind.
